Stop Messing With My Daydreams, Man!
Every once in a while, I think about going back to school. Not too often - three or four times a day, that's all. Maybe more, sometimes.
I'd like to get my PhD, and after spending some time lackadaisically fooling around online, looking at various programs, I have a short list of schools I'd really consider applying to.
One of those schools - really, it's pretty high on the list; could be number one - is University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Library and Information Studies. Their program looks awesome - I particularly like the focus on information ethics, of course, although there are other areas that I'm also drawn to, like history of librarianship and book, print, and media studies. Anyway, I have spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about this school, and what do you mean it's in trouble?
Gov. Scott Walker seeks $300 million in university cuts, but $220 million to build Bucks a new arena
Priorities, people.
How does the governor expect universities to run on fumes? Why, by not being so lazy, of course!
Someone needs to explain to this man exactly how hard professors already work. They teach classes (which means they also do a lot of work to keep up with their subjects, and plan courses, and help students), they do research (and spend a lot of time making sure that research is well done), and they write a lot. All three of those are full-time jobs for other people - and doesn't include committee meetings, service projects, and other faculty obligations they are required to fulfill. Professors aren't exactly slacking off!
In fact, not long ago, one anthropologist did some research, and found that the faculty members participating in his study were averaging 61 hours per week of work. I'm not the only one who thinks Walker is crazy: UW System chief says Walker out of touch.
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Anyway, I suppose I'll just have to keep an eye on what's going on there, and maybe start looking a little harder at the other schools on my list. Maybe they're better supported, by people who know the value of a good educational system.
Links!
- Libraries, Books, & Writers
- Library social worker helps homeless seeking quiet refuge
- Yoga in the Library
- EBSCO introduces Explora, a new interface for schools and public libraries Looks interesting...
- Gilbert School Board Keeps Toni Morrison’s Beloved on the Reading List
- George RR Martin’s The Winds of Winter: no plans for publication in 2015 Well, now I'm sad...
- Colleen McCullough, Author of ‘The Thorn Birds,’ Dies at 77
- 'Little House,' Big Demand: Never Underestimate Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Thai junta orders German NGO to cancel press freedom briefing "The Friedrich Ebert Foundation said military officers had ordered them not to hold a briefing at a Bangkok hotel Friday -- part of a series of annual reports looking at the challenges journalists face in Asia. 'It's true, sadly. We were initially told over the phone and then the military went to the hotel and told them that we weren't allowed to hold the event,' an employee of the foundation, who asked to remain anonymous, told AFP."
- Egyptian poet goes on trial accused of contempt of Islam
- Cartoonist Zunar’s office raided, books seized
- Scientists use physics to read scrolls from Herculaneum – but why do we care? "The Herculaneum scrolls exert a powerful pull on the modern imagination because of their possible contents. So much ancient literature has been lost – with only 10% surviving into the modern world, on some reckonings – that it is hard to suppress our fervent hopes that a great lost work might be discovered in the Villa of the Papyri’s library. Most classicists would give their eye teeth to lay their hands on a copy of Ovid’s version of the Medea, for a start."
- Net & Tech
- Verizon Will Now Let Users Kill Previously Indestructible Tracking Code
- Comcast thinks my husband is an a**hole – and they put it in writing Yes, let's give them control of our Internet.
- Your Anonymous Credit Card Data Can Be Matched Back To You
- FCC Officially Redefines Broadband As 25 Mbps Down, 3 Mbps Up Related: FCC chairman mocks industry claims that customers don’t need faster Internet Eheheheheh...
- Science & Health
- Suspected Ebola patient admitted to California hospital
- Precision Medicine Offers The Hope Of Cures Made Just For You
- Improved Anti-HIV Antibodies Created Through Genetic Engineering
- Brain Cells Governing Overeating And Sugar Addiction Identified
- New Type Of Chemical Bond Confirmed
- Marine species are more threatened than we thought – and we’ve only looked at 3%
- Education
- Bill Would Allow Texas Teachers To Kill Students "The Lone Star State already permits teachers to have firearms in the classroom, but H.B. 868, also known as the Teacher's Protection Act, would authorize instructors to use 'force or deadly force on school property, on a school bus, or at a school-sponsored event in defense of the educator's person or in defense of students of the school that employs the educator.' Instructors would also have the right to use deadly force 'in defense of property of the school that employs the educator.' Moreover, civil immunity would be granted to those who use deadly force, meaning they would not be liable for the injury or death of student."
- International
- V&A in row over self-censorship after Muhammad image is taken down "The Victoria and Albert museum has attempted to conceal its ownership of a devotional image of the prophet Muhammad, citing security concerns, in what is part of a wider pattern of apparent self-censorship by British institutions that scholars fear could undermine public understanding of Islamic art and the diversity of Muslim traditions."
- Centuries-old mummified monk found meditating in Mongolia
- Raul Castro: US must return Guantanamo for normal relations
- With Just a Few New Cases of Ebola, Liberia's Kids Head Back to School
- Authority Issues
- New NYPD Anti-Terror Unit Will Get Machine Guns To Police Protesters
- Video: Seattle Police Jail Elderly Military Veteran for "Walking in Seattle While Black"
- Seattle teacher suing city after being pepper sprayed at MLK rally
- Town Rallies Behind Doctor, 88, Who May Lose License For Treating Poor Patients From His Car "Dr. Carrol Frazier Landrum, a World War II veteran, had been asked to turn over the medical license he's held for more than 55 years to the Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure by Jan. 15, the Washington Post reported earlier this month. The 88-year-old doctor has been using his vehicle as an examination room to see poor patients in and around rural Edwards, Mississippi, for the past two years. Many patients can't afford to pay him, so sometimes he works for free."
- Louisiana
- New Orleans is 2nd worst for income inequality in the U.S., roughly on par with Zambia, report says
- 'Wild Wild East' New Orleans drug sting produces 111 arrests
- Other
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